the Chetan Bhagat controversy is not media-made. What do you have to say on that?
We have exactly followed the agreement that Vinodji (Vidhu Vinod Chopra) and the production house had with Chetan Bhagat. His name shows in the last rolling credits along with others.
Still Bhagat is very upset….
Yes…I know that he is very upset. Even I am upset with him. As an uninterested party, this is my opinion that it is unfortunate that Chetan is behaving in this manner. Credit should be given where it is due. Do you know who Abhijat Joshi is?
He is the one who wrote ‘Laage Raho Munnabhai’ and worked on the script of ‘3 Idiots’ for three years. The due credit has been given to him by the producer and director.
He is not as well-known as Chetan Bhagat, who is a big star in the world of writing. Chetan is trying to get the credit away from Abhijat, which I am very upset about.
Did you ever talk to Chetan Bhagat on the credit issue?
One day Chetan came to the sets of ‘3 Idiots’. I told him-‘Chetan, I have not read your book. But I will read it sometime.’ In reply, he said: ‘You don’t need to read it at all because the story that Abhijat and Raju (Rajkumar Hirani) has written, is very different from my book.’ These are his words…I am a witness. Now that the film has become successful, I think he is trying to get some publicity.
Starting point…idea was ‘Five Point Someone’…but the script was changed entirely. If you have seen the film, pick out all the 15-20 highlight scenes of the film, and show me if any one of them is similar to the book. No one should be confused that Abhijat is the writer of our film. He also wrote ‘Laage Raho Munnabhai’…was that also copied from Chetan Bhagat! Don’t get confused by a person trying to get publicity.
it’s no point wasting time on a person like Chetan Bhagat.
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